what are you doing in new york? and all of this conversation which is just one of the great beauties of life, small talk. >> rose: small things, talking tenant small things. tell me about philharmonic and what you did there. . well, i sang a group of seven sonnets and i wrote some love sonnets, just to kind of work against the, you know, people put me in a bag of small town, midwest chronicler, and so i wrote these sonnets, love sonnets, some erotic son mets to kind of, sonnets to expand the franchise or something, and so i sang those .. >> rose:er rot tick,er rot tick sonnets. >> the philharmonic never had any of those before. in the morning she awoke, dear lover on her back, buck-naked and i crept under the cotton blankets and over a hill with tufts of sea grass and snaked my way -- it is a sonnet, anyway. >> rose: i like these. >> i can tell right away. and then i did this long sort of improv thing with the orchestra, and wonderful singer, kristine, and just little snatches of music. it was music and reminiscence